Roommate eventually went to sleep at sometimes past two. Alarm clock (for her class, went off at 6:30). I slept in between. But I got stuff done for all that last night. Yay.
Meanwhile have noticed large crowd of birds here abouts, especially when leaving for dinner at 5:30-6:00ish time. Large amounts of either crows/ravens/magpies (really can't tell but looks creepy anyway, wheeling about in large circles. )
Oh and I got this in the NaNo email. Quoting this part because it's funny:
"As you move from the spring wood of Week One into the trying climate of Week Two, one or all of the following are likely to happen:
1) The fun, good-time feel of the first week will evaporate.
2) You will decide that your book is a miserable failure, that you are a creative fraud, and that novels are best left to novelists.
3) You will put 1 and 2 together, and decide to cut your losses and drop out now while the getting is good and the fall TV season is still relatively new.
I cycle through these feelings every year I participate in NaNoWriMo, and I have two words for anyone who finds themselves falling into a similar Week Two funk:
Cresta run.
Yep. The greatest toboggan run in the world is just one week away. Make it through the grumpiness and self-doubt of Week Two, and you'll be rewarded with renewed energy and an eerily improved outlook on your novel. Work diligently through this, the hardest week of NaNoWriMo, and you'll see the tangled mess of your story begin to unknot, and your book begin to soar.
I know it's hard to believe. But look at all the work you've done already. You have characters! You have settings! Your manuscript has grown large enough to injure a small dog!"
My manuscript has grown large enough to injure a small dog.
1 comment:
Or a big rodent.
I think that sounds more impressive because people would want to injure a big rodent more than a small dog.
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